Critical Thinking 21-5!

Do you think that the passage of the Volstead Act and the ruling in the Scopes trial represented genuine triumphs for traditional values.

In the end i think that the Volstead Act and prohibition and the the ruling of the scopes trial all represented triumphs for traditional values. As the world and society life was changing rapidly in urban areas with the inventions, drinking, party, and other self indulgences some were still holding tight to traditional more simple values. Two ways in witch traditional values generally triumphed was with the prohibition act, where alcohol was deemed illegal. Though many people decided not to fallow this law and live above while smuggling alcohol and opening up secret clubs in the end when you look at the law it generally did have a decreasing effect on peoples consumption of alcohol and that is what the act set out to do even though it did also lead more people to find ways around the law. Then there was the ruling of the Scopes trial witch was also a very important traditional values win. Religion is more predominate in traditional values where as newer values might have looked towards newer theories such as evolution. When a school teacher in Tenn. named Scopes tried to teach the theory of evolution in his class room, he was prosecuted for it. This trial lead to a triumph in religious values because the man was ultimately found guilty and fined for teaching evolution rather then creation.